Policy Priorities
- Holding the bureaucracy accountable
- Preventing bureaucratic abuses
- Cutting red tape
- Reducing Crony Capitalism
- Preventing discrimination based on immutable characteristics
- Protecting freedom of speech from cancel culture and tech censorship
The American republic was founded as a government by, for, and of the people, to defend the people’s rights — but sadly that aspiration at times seems like a distant dream. Policymakers empower unelected bureaucracies that rule huge swaths of American life. Legislative, judicial, and executive power has become concentrated within the regulatory agencies themselves. As a result, regulatory agencies effect massive shifts in policy that elected representatives never voted on. Various protections empower the career bureaucrats to pursue their own preferred policies with little regard to the views of elected officials. What began two-and-a-half centuries ago as man’s greatest experiment in self-governance looks now like rule without consent of the governed. Meanwhile, the federal government ignores growing threats to American liberties like cancel culture, tech censorship, and state-sanctioned racial discrimination. The Center for American Freedom exists to defend American freedom from both government and non-governmental threats. It will conduct research and generate policies that cut the red tape of burdensome regulations, defend fundamental rights, and restore American governance as originally intended.
The Founders designed the Constitution to protect the people’s rights and hold the government accountable. They believed that concentrated power was vulnerable to abuse, so they divided federal authority between executive, legislative, and judicial branches. They further required the executive and legislative branches to regularly stand for re-election, holding policymakers accountable to those they govern. And they strictly limited the federal government’s authority, leaving most governing power to state and local government. The contemporary administrative state circumvents these constitutional protections. The federal government needs to return to these constitutional safeguards that protect Americans’ liberties. It also needs to take vigorous action to defend the American people’s rights from emerging non-governmental threats, such as cancel culture and tech censorship.
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September 9, 2024
New Report Exposes Biden-Harris’s Proposed EV Mandates to Cost 200,000 American Jobs
AFPI published a new report that reveals the Biden-Harris Administration’s proposed electric vehicle (EV) mandates would cost nearly 200,000 jobs in the U.S. auto manufacturing industry. The draft regulations would require that EVs make up two-thirds of all new vehicle sales by 2032. If the administration finalizes this rule, it will devastate American workers, especially in the Midwest.
Research Report
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September 9, 2024
Ban on Gas-Powered Cars Would Eliminate Nearly 200,000 Auto Manufacturing Jobs
The Biden-Harris Administration has finalized regulations severely restricting sales of gas-powered cars. Under the new rules, conventional vehicles may make up no more than one-third of new motor vehicle sales by 2032. Many policymakers have proposed going even further and completely banning the sale of conventional and hybrid vehicles, only permitting sales of electric vehicles (EVs). For example, then-Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) supported legislation that would completely ban conventional and hybrid vehicle sales. During her 2020 presidential campaign, Harris similarly proposed banning all gas-powered cars.
Op-Ed
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July 10, 2024
Our foolishly liberal media saw Biden’s decline. Now they’ve been exposed
The public immolation of President Joe Biden’s personal credibility shoves the media apparatus that propelled him to power into a tough jam.
Op-Ed
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July 4, 2024
Reclaiming the spirit of Independence Day
Two hundred forty-eight years ago, American independence was proclaimed. Today, the America First Policy Institute is following the tradition of our Founding Fathers and igniting the spirit of the Revolution in the minds and hearts of modern Americans.
Research Report
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June 24, 2024
Grievance Arbitrators Lack Federal Sector Experience
Federal labor management practitioners widely report that grievance arbitrators lack knowledge of and experience in federal employment law.
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